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		<title>What the Oscars teach us about voting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year, the voting process for the Oscars has changed. Rather than indicating a single choice as they have done since 1946, members of the Academy will provide a first choice, a second choice, etc.. potentially ranking all 10 nominees for Best Picture if so desired. Some are speculating that this will affect the results. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benlog.com/articles/2010/02/27/what-the-oscars-teach-us-about-voting/</link>
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		<title>For deniability, faking data even the owner can&#8217;t prove is fake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was speaking with a colleague yesterday about Loopt, the location-based social network, the rise of location-based services and the incredible privacy challenges they present. I heard the Loopt folks give a talk a few months ago, and I was generally impressed with the measures they&#8217;re taking to protect their users&#8217; data.
I particularly enjoyed the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benlog.com/articles/2010/02/26/for-deniability-faking-data-even-the-owner-cant-prove-is-fake/</link>
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		<title>Taxing Human Transactions – Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The worst part of my job is dealing with the mess of document formats and coding systems in healthcare. The acronym soup is insane: HL7, CCD, CCR, CDA, Green CDA (which I just heard about from John Halamka&#8217;s blog but&#8230; no link!), and that&#8217;s just the document formats. Then there are coding systems like LOINC, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benlog.com/articles/2010/02/18/taxing-human-transactions-%e2%80%93-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Buzz Kill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone is talking about the privacy disaster that was the Google Buzz launch, and oh my goodness it was. I&#8217;ve never been so thankful that I don&#8217;t use gmail. I&#8217;m frankly surprised that they didn&#8217;t do a smaller beta first, or that there isn&#8217;t a group at Google charged with thinking about the privacy implications [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benlog.com/articles/2010/02/13/buzz-kill/</link>
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		<title>I was wrong about the iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I made a couple of predictions about the iPad, Apple&#8217;s tablet, and I realize in retrospect that, while I got some of the details right, I got the gist completely wrong. I thought it was going to be a special-purpose device. And most commentators are saying just that. But I was wrong and they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benlog.com/articles/2010/01/31/i-was-wrong-about-the-ipad/</link>
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		<title>Sometimes it&#8217;s not counter-intuitive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Schneier writes that it&#8217;s reasonable for unmanned drones to broadcast unencrypted video streams, because

 the video stream is not that useful to enemies, and
 given that many people need access to the video feed, the key distribution problem would be very difficult to manage, and some allies could be severely handicapped if they happened [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benlog.com/articles/2009/12/27/sometimes-its-not-counter-intuitive/</link>
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		<title>a prediction regarding the Apple &#8220;Tablet&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why a prediction? Eh, cause it&#8217;s fun and cause I think the Apple Tablet will have a large impact on consumer computing.
I think Apple will launch a tablet computer in January that will be aimed at saving TV and print journalism. On-demand video and on-demand print magazines and newspapers will be at the forefront. And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benlog.com/articles/2009/12/26/a-prediction-regarding-the-apple-tablet/</link>
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		<title>Takoma Park 2009: the conclusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s been a few weeks of craziness at home and catching up on other work, but I&#8217;ve finally wrapped up the Takoma Park 2009 audit. The final step: letting you, dear reader, run the audit all on your own.
You&#8217;ll find the complete instructions here on the auditing site.
I haven&#8217;t tested this on Windows, just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benlog.com/articles/2009/12/23/takoma-park-2009-the-conclusion/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a WRAP followup: maybe the goal was client-side certs?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m having some interesting offline followup discussions with folks about oAuth WRAP and my relatively negative reaction to it. One of the comments seems to be that SSL will recreate exactly the security that HMAC signatures were trying to achieve, and it was really hard for developers to do oAuth right in the first place.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benlog.com/articles/2009/12/23/its-a-wrap-followup-maybe-the-goal-was-client-side-certs/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a WRAP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just finding out about oAuth WRAP, a new, simplified version of oAuth which some are calling the &#8220;valet key&#8221; approach to web data sharing: don&#8217;t give your Facebook password to a random web app, instead use oAuth to mint them a valet key that lets the app access only some specific portions of your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benlog.com/articles/2009/12/22/its-a-wrap/</link>
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